Networked Flight School Package Installation Instructions
These
instructions are for the Networked Flight School package.
(If you
are not installing it to a network, please order the single user
version on our main page.)
1.
From our email link, download the file TomvaleFiles.zip
2.
Extract the folder to any device
3.
Create a folder called 'TomvaleFiles' on your server
4.
Copy the folders 'Student-Files' and 'images' into this
folder,
(if
this an update, and you wish to keep your old student records, only
copy the 'images' folder.)
5.
Install the .exe file to each client. It will guide you in pointing
each client to the server.
The folders will look like this:
The
server will store the student records and the visual aids.
The server
can be part of any network which the clients recognize. i.e wired,
wi-fi, bluetooth.
Remember that the server location may be named
differently on different clients.
For example, the folder 'c:\program
files' on the server may be mapped as 'g' or called
'\\Johnsoffice\c\program files' on the client.
You can easily tell by
using Windows Explorer on the client, browsing to that folder, and
reading its title in the address box.
This will also confirm that you
have the permissions to access that folder from the client. Write this
location down
You
may also install a copy of the software on your server by pointing it
to those folders.
The first time you install the software, you
will be asked for your information,
but thereafter you simply have to
point the client to your server.
The client must always be connected to the internet to run the software.
Simply Put
The
purpose of installing the software to a network is so that the student
records reside in a central location.
Otherwise a student would have to
use the same computer each day to add to his records,
and the
instructor would need to check all the computers to find out the
progress of his students.
This central location is called the ‘server’
and the other computers are called the ‘clients’.
Because the software
is always installed and run on every computer, there is nothing special
about the server.
It could be any of the computers connected in a
network. However, the clients need to be able to ‘talk to’ the server
and vice versa.
In current versions of Microsoft operating systems this
means having the right permissions, i.e. running as administrator.
Otherwise when the student tries to save his progress, (which is being
sent to the server), the system will prevent this.
In
addition, the software is quite large and most of this is data that
doesn’t change, i.e. visual aids, textbooks and .pdf files.
So rather
than install all this data on every computer, and since we are already
connected to the server,
it gets installed on the server. So what you
end up with is a server which has the student records,
the static data,
and the program, and each client which has only the program.
If
the software tells you it can’t create the student files, it means that
the network is not giving
the client permission to write to the server,
so make sure you have administrator privileges
and change the
permissions of the software to allow this.
If you have problems,
give us a call and we can talk you through
it.
Running the Flight School Package
Insure
that the server is on and you are connected to the internet. Click on
the icon on the desktop.
The
first time a student uses the package, he will create a logon for
himself.
To view all of your students' progress, log on with the
instructor password.
(The default password is 'view', but you should
change this password.)
Updated - 04/01/24